history

At their best, theology and history are complementary tools that enact remembering as a sacred practice.

If we remove the difficult facts of history leading up to Jesus’ birth, the story loses its power.

I remember when my son first asked me what history is. I told him it’s the story we write with our lives.

What does the stolen skull of a Mexican revolutionary have to do with my friend and me, living in Colorado a century after his death?

David Livingstone explores the dubious history of overclaiming or distorting the role of climate.

When the Antonine Plague hit in 165, says historian Colin Elliott, the Roman Empire was already well on its way to failure.

When I am troubled by the times in which we live, I turn to Óscar Romero.

The version of Christian history I grew up with hit fast-forward after John’s Revelation and held it until the late 20th century.

Like so many books today, it seems aimed at convincing an audience that will never read it.

Like Drunk History and History of the World Part II, Cunk on Earth is very funny. But the larger joke is that fake news is winning.

I approached the project’s new anthology with some skepticism. Its contents quickly dispelled my doubts.

Josephus was tight with the emperor. Guy MacLean Rogers trusts his account anyway.

When seismic shifts unseat us, it’s the ordinary that puts us back together again.

School districts and legislatures aren’t just challenging textbooks and curricula. They’re challenging feelings.

Behind the curriculum debates lurks a deeper question about what it means to form citizens.